Novelist. Born Eirene Adeline Botting at 22 Perham Road, West Kensington. She disliked her name and adopted her mother's maiden name. After the failure of her first marriage, she suffered a breakdown and spent nearly a year in the Bethlem mental hospital. Her novels include, 'Frost in May' and 'The Lost Traveller'. Died at St Raphael's Nursing Home, Danehill, Sussex
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Antonia White
Novelist, Antonia White, (Eirene Botting), 1899 - 1980, lived here, 1899 - 1921.
Novelist and playwright. Born Kingston Hill, Surrey. Nobel Prize for literature, 1932. The Forsyte Saga is his best known work. Died Grove Lodge, Hampstead.
Pen-name of a novelist about whom little is known for certain other than the fact that he spent time in Mexico where he died. Author of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre', 1927, made into the 1948 ...
Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Germany, Mexico
Poet and critic. Born at Woodford, Essex. Died Lymington. Web sites giving his poetry are numerous.
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